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Lone Star High School football player Darrin Smith, 16, holds up the receipt for his triple burger with fries as he and his classmates celebrate their district football title at Whataburger #1020 on Friday, November 3, 2017 at the corner of N Dallas Parkway and Eldorado Parkway in Frisco, Texas. Lone Star and Reedy High Schools played in the district championship game on Friday night. The two schools dubbed the game the "Whatabowl" to determine which school "owned" the Whataburger location where both school's students gather on Friday nights.

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Students from Lone Star High School celebrate their district football title at Whataburger #1020 on Friday, November 3, 2017 at the corner of N Dallas Parkway and Eldorado Parkway in Frisco, Texas. Lone Star and Reedy High Schools played in the district championship game on Friday night. The two schools dubbed the game the "Whatabowl" to determine which school "owned" the Whataburger location where both school's students gather on Friday nights. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)

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FILE - This Thursday, July 9, 2015, file photo shows a Whataburger restaurant in San Antonio, Texas. The Texas restaurant chain said on social media Wednesday, June 28, 2017, that a story shared online that claims it would be going out of business on Aug. 1 is a hoax. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Happy birthday, Whataburger! Here are some of our favorite facts and memories of the beloved Texas food chain

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August 8 is Whataburger's birthday, and we forgot to get the 68-year-old fast food chain a present. It's not for a lack of caring, though, because like most Texans we care quite a bit about Whataburger.

We're not alone, of course. Selena Gomez's favorite burger joint? Whataburger. When Kristin Chenoweth performed in Dallas in 2017, she was sipping on a Whataburger cup. Those burgers are important to a lot of people, y'all.

So in lieu of a gift, we're celebrating Whataburger's birthday by remembering some of our favorite stories about it:

The fact that we can roll up in a $643,000 Rolls Royce

The fact that school rivalries revolve around Whataburger

Any non-Texan's first bite

When we learned that Hannah Wise -- poor, poor Hannah Wise -- had never had Whataburger, we forced her to document the experience late one night. "As my good friend pointed out to me though, 3 a.m. Whataburger is the best Whataburger -- a sentiment with which I have to agree."